While 17-year-old Canadian Samira Omar was living in the UK, she suffered an unprovoked attack; her classmates beat her and burnt her with boiling water which left her unrecognizable.

Back home she met Basma Hameed, an expert in the emerging field of cosmetic tattooing who—having suffered similar burns herself at a young age—decided to help her for free.

As you'll see in this moving video from CBC News, Basma is able to tattoo Samira with permanent pigment that matches her natural skin tone, and while the burns heal, she's masking them with a clever scar concealer she developed herself.

"I wanted to reach out to and help as much as possible" the specialist said, and Samira's restored confidence is serious recognition of that.